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I've got a question about FIP. Currently on Fangraphs Matt Garza has an ERA 4.17, but his FIP is 1.62. Why is there such a big gap? Is it solely because of his high strikeout totals?

That, and the Cubs defense is terrible. He has a .382 BABIP (when he was on the Rays it was about .270 year-to-year) and an insanley high amount of infield hits are getting on base (16.7%).

The amazing thing is all his peripherals point to him getting better as the year goes on; with the only thing that will most likely starting going up and hurting him being home runs. A big part of it is his increased GB%. Combine every other hit being a groundball with 1 of every 3 batters getting struck out and you have a formula for success.